Pagn v. Caldern’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
112 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Kerry Heckman, on Behalf of Themselves and All Other Persons Similarly Situated v. Williamson County (2012), Mancuso v. Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n (2009)
112 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'acts were so egregious as to shock the conscience.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In addition to these Article III prerequisites, prudential concerns ordinarily require a plaintiff to show that his claim is premised on his own legal rights (as opposed to those of a third party), that his claim is not merely a generalized grievance, and that it falls within the zone of interests protected by the law invoked.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both plaintiff-specific and claim-specific.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.